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by john-h-k 1y ago
Why? Because it makes reading significantly easier
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> No, this is a statistics trope. “Our revenue has grown 50x this year” always means “our revenue was <something laughable like $100> and now it’s <something still laughable like $5000>” Orthogonal. I said it doesn’t imply it
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by john-h-k 1y ago
The whole first analogy feels a bit backwards. Crocodile tries to kill human, human kills it as the stronger animal. That seems very natural. Crocodile tries to kill human, human decides it’s natural for crocodile to do so and lets it live
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by john-h-k 1y ago
Okay but doesn’t seem relevant to how effective NASA currently is
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by john-h-k 1y ago
The time investment a human has to make to get 31% on the IMO is worth far more than $400
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by john-h-k 1y ago
It doesn’t imply that. I’m pretty sure it is all false positives, but that number does not imply that. It could simply be that only ~1 in 84 smokers was being fined before
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by john-h-k 1y ago
But if you ported the ABAP to a static language it would be significantly faster than both
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by john-h-k 1y ago
My C compiler, which is pretty naive and around ~90,000 lines, can compile _itself_ in around 1 second. Clang can do it in like 0.4. The simple truth is a C compiler doesn’t need to do very much!
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> Specifically, that some semanti spaces (e.g., heavy-tailed, frame-unstable, undecidable contexts) can’t be computed or resolved by any algorithmic policy — no matter how clever or powerful. The model does not underperform here, the poi
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> You stated to "feel" generally intelligent (A's don't feel and don't have an "I" that can feel) - Your nuanced, subtly ironic and self referential way of formulating clearly suggests that you are not
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> Show me literally any study that correlates the amount of work performed/the value of work/the ability of the worker with wealth. I'll wait. Not too long ago I dug a large hole, and then filled it back in again. It was v
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by john-h-k 1y ago
If I had to develop a building designed to incubate the most horrendous possible types of pathogens (w/o bioengineering), it would end up basically being a hospital. Obviously hospitals are good, but they are inevitably a perfect envir
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by john-h-k 1y ago
Bertrand Russell coined an analogy: for any (even infinite) collection of pairs of shoes, one can pick out the left shoe from each pair to obtain an appropriate collection (i.e. set) of shoes; this makes it possible to define a choice funct
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by john-h-k 1y ago
It's ironic of course because Rust (the language) is named after the fungus called Rust, rather than iron-oxide
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by john-h-k 1y ago
If you read the link, it seems to be about avoiding phishing and malicious links, and nothing to do with banning piracy/etc sites
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> Can you resist ads where, say, AirBnB pays OpenAI privately to “dope” the o3 hyperspace such that AirBnB is moved imperceptibly closer to tokens like value and authentic?? This would be a very impressive technical feat
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by john-h-k 1y ago
There is no meaningful way to get around this. Ban them in `uses:` keys? Fine, they just put it in a bash script and run that. Etc etc. If it allows running arbitrary code, this will always exist
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by john-h-k 1y ago
It’s a brick, except a brick that can do the vast majority of things a laptop can do other than update to the newest OS and install the very latest software?
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by john-h-k 1y ago
This has to be taken as one of many data points. Many things that are good for your body will also drive increased cancer growth
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by john-h-k 1y ago
I wonder if Uber/Deliveroo/etc could implement a penalty for doing a delivery - when you are marked as an e-bike deliverer - "too fast". Obviously they have no incentive to do it, but it seems the easiest single action t
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by john-h-k 1y ago
Presumably doing it via the ticketing system is simpler - so why would they use the more controversial & more complex system to do it if the other works? Of course its possible this is just being draconian or whatever, but if I were a b
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by john-h-k 1y ago
Important to note I absolutely do NOT notice the same dangers from bikes as e-bikes. Like yeah some bikes run reds and there are bad cyclists (just as with drivers, etc), but specifically e-bikes frequently cause issue. I have had to dodge
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> The penalty for crossing though red and getting hit by a car is death for any cyclist and a likely accident but very survivable for a car. But the legal penalty is nothing to do with what risks you took. You could have the view that th
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by john-h-k 1y ago
I can't speak for the accuracy of it, I just thought it would be useful to provide the context
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> They're fixated on cyclists running red lights and stop signs, not distinguishing between different kinds of bikes Absolutely agree this is silly and cities should be encouraging cycling. > We want to encourage people to bike l
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by john-h-k 1y ago
It does provide reasoning for the asymmetry: > “Since e-bikes do not require a license, drivers of e-bikes can simply ignore their traffic summons with no repercussions whatsoever, making any enforcement futile,” the police spokesperson
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by john-h-k 1y ago
Important context that may explain it somewhat further down in the article. > “Since e-bikes do not require a license, drivers of e-bikes can simply ignore their traffic summons with no repercussions whatsoever, making any enforcement fu
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by john-h-k 1y ago
It was mean to be a lighthearted joke more than dismissive, apologies. Very interesting though
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by john-h-k 1y ago
I used a similar defence when someone mysteriously broke a school computer years back
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by john-h-k 1y ago
> When Pishos smelled an almond-like scent, Donoghue asked the county's chief toxicologist, Michael Schaffer, to test the capsules, and Schaffer's team determined that four of the 44 remaining capsules from the Janus' bott

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